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Africa: Why Did Israel's Netanyahu Scrap the Migrant Deal?
DW, 3 April 2018
In a surprise move, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrapped a deal with UN refugee agency UNHCR that would have seen thousands of African migrants relocated, while… Read more »
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Africa: Israel Suspends Plan to Deport Thousands of African Migrants
VOA, 3 April 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was putting on hold an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants to Western… Read more »
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Africa: Rep. Bass Statement On Israeli Agreement with the U.N. Refugee Agency Regarding Immigrant Relocation
U.S. Congress, 4 April 2018
April 2, 2018 - Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) issued the following statement regarding the new agreement with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to relocate thousands… Read more »
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Eritrea: Anti-Deportation Protests Continue in Tel Aviv
VOA, 26 February 2018
About 15,000 protesters turned out Saturday on the streets of Tel Aviv to voice their opposition to the deportation of African asylum-seekers, many of them from Sudan and Eritrea. Read more »
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Africa: Israel Wants Asylum Seekers Out in 2 Months
DW, 4 February 2018
Israel has begun notifying African asylum seekers that they have two months to leave for an unnamed third country. Outrage over the plan has long simmered among liberal Israelis… Read more »
Israel Shelves Plans to Deport African Migrants
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country will put on hold an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants to Western countries.
InFocus
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Just two months from now, the Israeli government says it will begin indefinitely imprisoning asylum seekers who refuse deportation. IRIN Middle East Editor Annie Slemrod explores ... Read more »
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, affirmed that Kigali would accept the refugees and asylum seekers as long as the process of relocating them was in line with ... Read more »
